Roughly 41 percent of dementia cases in the United States trace back to a dozen risk factors that people can actually change, and new research across more than 214,000 participants has sharpened the ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

Why do cancers develop differently in different people-even when they are exposed to the same risk factors? An international research group, including the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), has now ...

A majestic forest tree, an American chestnut was typically 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 meters) in height, but could grow as tall as 150 feet (45 meters) over its several-hundred-year lifespan. Its leafy ...

If approved, ISL/LEN could become the first once-weekly, single-tablet HIV treatment to reach the market as patients rely on ...

Aspiring physician and recent college graduate Minjae (MJ) Eum intends to change circumstances and attitudes about medicine and health care in her home state, Alabama, patient by patient. Many people ...

That’s because mosquitoes are selective insects, and some people are more likely to get bites than others. There are a few ...

Dr. Kate Metcalf has been appointed as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. She began her role on ...

Join the 4th Annual Breaking Clays for Cure Rare Disease in Southeast Texas, where shooting enthusiasts unite to support ...

The comprehensive program combines five weeks of online instruction with a one-day, hands-on training workshop offered at two ...

Sensing that breast cancer ran in certain families, the geneticist Mary-Claire King and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley ...